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american history professor craig wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. that "the american campus to it as a silent monument to slavery." welcome to democracy now! talk about america's most elite universities. what relation do they have to slavery? >> i think there are multiple relationships. the first and probably most provocative is the relationship to the slave trade itself. in the middle of the 18th century, from 1746 to 1759, fewer than 25 years, the number of colleges in the british colonies triples from 3 to 9. it triples and that 25- yearperiod which coincides with the height of the slave trade. it is precisely the rise in the atlantic economy based on the african slave trade that allows for this fantastic articulation of new growth of the institutional infrastructure. >> let's talk specifically about particular universities. you do look at some universities in the south, but also in the deep north. harvard. >> it is a very northern story. when you think about the colonial world, until the american revolution, there's actually only one college in
american history professor craig wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. that "the american campus to it as a silent monument to slavery." welcome to democracy now! talk about america's most elite universities. what relation do they have to slavery? >> i think there are multiple relationships. the first and probably most provocative is the relationship to the slave trade itself. in the middle of the 18th century, from 1746 to 1759, fewer than...
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american history professor craig wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. that "the american campus to it as a silent monument to slavery." welcome to democracy now! talk about america's most elite universities. what relation do they have to slavery? >> i think there are multiple relationships. the first and probably most provocative is the relationship to the slave trade itself. in the middle of the 18th century, from 1746 to 1759,
american history professor craig wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. that "the american campus to it as a silent monument to slavery." welcome to democracy now! talk about america's most elite universities. what relation do they have to slavery? >> i think there are multiple relationships. the first and probably most provocative is the relationship to the slave trade itself. in the middle of the 18th century, from 1746 to 1759,
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it's an essential concept and it's also in confucian education. ritual offerings to the ancestors, ancestors are very much part of it and we are going to go to a taoist temple in san francisco and we'll be seeing some of that ancestor worship. doctrinal; see you can do this at home folks, you can take any world view and take your six dimensions and plop it down and pop up comes all this great information. but, for us the doctrinal dimension includes the interconnected teachings of confucius, lao tzu, the classics that are mediated down through the educational system, the great systems of scholars in the confucian world. this is how people begin to take something as ephemeral as the tao and bring it into a clear statement of what goes on. ethical; our dimension and what we are going to concentrate on. and the reason why i felt we would at least touch on east asian religions at this point in the course, is because family relationships become so important, they become the ground for the ethical activity. dr. shive can help us out with the relationshi
it's an essential concept and it's also in confucian education. ritual offerings to the ancestors, ancestors are very much part of it and we are going to go to a taoist temple in san francisco and we'll be seeing some of that ancestor worship. doctrinal; see you can do this at home folks, you can take any world view and take your six dimensions and plop it down and pop up comes all this great information. but, for us the doctrinal dimension includes the interconnected teachings of confucius,...
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in this vast and varied nation, differences in religion, education, region, class, gender, race, and ethnicity produce a broad spectrum of views about the political world. even when people have similar backgrounds, they often have different opinions. we wish everyone would just think like us, but they don't. as a wise old saying puts it, "never talk politics with someone you just met." for those trying to implement the public will, this great diversity of opinion makes it difficult to even define public opinion -- which public are we talking about? of course, none of this stops political leaders from engaging in a constant search for public opinion, employing ever more sophisticated and expensive methods. the truth seems to be that this search is like the quest for the holy grail. as soon as sometng that can be called public opinion is identified, it changes. for "democracy in america," i'm renee poussaint. annenberg media ♪ for information about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner.org.
in this vast and varied nation, differences in religion, education, region, class, gender, race, and ethnicity produce a broad spectrum of views about the political world. even when people have similar backgrounds, they often have different opinions. we wish everyone would just think like us, but they don't. as a wise old saying puts it, "never talk politics with someone you just met." for those trying to implement the public will, this great diversity of opinion makes it difficult to...
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president obama appeared at a brooklyn, new york high school friday to promote federal spending on education. >> a budget that cuts what we don't need, poses wasteful tax loopholes that don't create jobs, free up resources to invest in the things that actually do help us grow like education and scientific research and infrastructure, roads, bridges, airports. they should not be an ideological exercise, we are just using common sense? . what is going to help us grow? what will expand our middle- class? those are the things we should be putting money into. >> internal records show north dakota has kept silent on scores of oil spill's over the past two years. according to the associated press, or dakota has reported nearly three hundred oil spills since january 20 12, but none of them publicly disclosed. it took 11 days before north dakota just recently announced that the tesoro oil spill that dumped more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil. dakota -- north dakota is the nation's second-largest oil producer. lou reed has died. a legend of the new york rock scene, he cofounded the velvet undergroun
president obama appeared at a brooklyn, new york high school friday to promote federal spending on education. >> a budget that cuts what we don't need, poses wasteful tax loopholes that don't create jobs, free up resources to invest in the things that actually do help us grow like education and scientific research and infrastructure, roads, bridges, airports. they should not be an ideological exercise, we are just using common sense? . what is going to help us grow? what will expand our...
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basic values that we thought we all shared- the search for peace and justice, tolerance, the value of education in itself- and to learn some of each others' sources- a text study on these things. and we did that for a year, with five different meetings, and now we're publishing a book on that subject- common values, different sources- and it was kind of amazing to see how much we in fact did have in common. some of the people who've never been involved in this kind of dialogue before said that it seemed we were stealing eaeach others' texts, because they weren't aware of influence during the ages of other peoples' text. but that kind of thing, when you look at some core values that the three faiths share was very instructive to a number of a people. >> [speaking in islamic] >> [translated] we treat our brothers, the christians, as one society. >> [speaking in islamic] in this holy city of nazareth. >> [speaking in islamic] >> since trying to- because we were born here. >> [speaking in islamic] >> we live together as neighbors, as brothers, in both sad events and happy events. >> [speaking in is
basic values that we thought we all shared- the search for peace and justice, tolerance, the value of education in itself- and to learn some of each others' sources- a text study on these things. and we did that for a year, with five different meetings, and now we're publishing a book on that subject- common values, different sources- and it was kind of amazing to see how much we in fact did have in common. some of the people who've never been involved in this kind of dialogue before said that...
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i am worried that their education will be disrupted and that they will not want to continue. you ever been contacted by u.s. government officials or by the pakistani government officials to explain to you why this attack occurred? >> i did communicate with a local political officer of my village to find an answer, but he was unable to give me an answer. >> have you been compensated for the death of your mother, the children's grandmother? no one has given me anything. >> zubair, what did your grandmother mean to you? >> there was no one else like her. she was full of love. when she passed away, all my friends told me, you are not the only one that lost a grandmother. we all lost a grandmother. everyone knew her in the village. are nine years old. how have things changed since the attack? do you go out into the fields, do you fear another attack? >> ever since the strike, i am always scared. all of us kids are scared to go outside. >> do you fear another strike, zubair? you have been numerous operations on your leg. your message to america? >> i am scared because of what happe
i am worried that their education will be disrupted and that they will not want to continue. you ever been contacted by u.s. government officials or by the pakistani government officials to explain to you why this attack occurred? >> i did communicate with a local political officer of my village to find an answer, but he was unable to give me an answer. >> have you been compensated for the death of your mother, the children's grandmother? no one has given me anything. >>...
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what kills me is that the data is so clear on what music education does for children all the way around. not just for their tone or there is a, but the performance in the key subject areas. >> math and science, we can use some mathematicians. clearly in my children. my wife homeschools. we got them into music and immediately, all of their subjects got better. unfortunately, it means everything and one of the first things to go as the music program. -- is the music program. tavis: why did you choose to homeschool? >> we are church people. we are believers. we wanted to make sure that our .hildren were specially guided you don't get that in schools. good at it.ery i don't think it is for everybody. if you are not good, you can hire other people to help you do it.
what kills me is that the data is so clear on what music education does for children all the way around. not just for their tone or there is a, but the performance in the key subject areas. >> math and science, we can use some mathematicians. clearly in my children. my wife homeschools. we got them into music and immediately, all of their subjects got better. unfortunately, it means everything and one of the first things to go as the music program. -- is the music program. tavis: why did...
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captioned by the caption center wgbh educational foundation annenberg media ♪ for informationtion about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner.org. mujme casé, trabajé, unacrié tres hijos.ena. trabajé mucho y lo planeamos todo. todo menos la degeneración macular de los ojos. me ha robado mi vista y mi independencia. y esta enfermedad de los ojos será una epidemia para cuando mis hijos alcancen mi edad. llame al 1-800-437-2423 para información gratis de la organización de investigaciones de la degeneración macular. funding for this program is provided by annenberg media. narrator: estimates on the tal number of different living organisms that inhabit our planet range from 8 million to 60 million or more. of these, only about 2 million have been described scientifically. there are a lot yet to be discovered. many of these discoveries could be made in tropical rainforests, where it is thought that over half of the world's species exist. but we are losing these bastions of biodiversity before we even know what's in them. and tropical
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captioned by the caption center wgbh educational foundation annenberg media ♪ by: for information about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner.org. mujme casé, trabajé, unacrié tres hijos.ena. trabajé mucho y lo planeamos todo. todo menos la degeneración macular de los ojos. me ha robado mi vista y mi independencia. y esta enfermedad de los ojos será una epidemia para cuando mis hijos alcancen mi edad. llame al 1-800-437-2423 para información gratis de la organización de investigaciones de la degeneración macular. >> waves. light waves washing against our eyes, creating a vision of the world around us. [ thunder rumbling ] sound waves crashing against our ears, sometimes jarring and other times beautiful. cosmic waves bathing the universe. all of it explained, illuminated, and connected via mathematics. sometimes we call it harmonic analysis, other times we call it spectral analysis, but most people call it fourier analysis. of all these sensory experiences, perhaps music more than any other is the one that is most closely associa
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numbers in vietnam and killing colored people over there, whereas they could not get decent treatment or education at home. he made that famous quote about spending $320,000 to kill every card thattnam soldier is what it cost us. we were spending $50 at home for anyone who was poor. a nation that has these priorities is doomed to spiritual death. >> so you had king doing with kennedy fifth year's ago in the 1963 march on washington, then moving on to deal with lbj to get the voting rights and the civil rights act passed. >> right. i think we have to give -- not much credit is given to kennedy, but his death did motivate a lot of that feeling we had to pass that, the civil rights act and the voting rights act. ,ing fought for it and johnson that was his best side. we have to give him credit for backing him on that. >> sadly, it was robert kennedy fulton really approved a wiretap on dr. king. maybe we can take from that moment decades ago to what we're seeing today, not just leading dissident figures, but on all americans, and it looks like on most world leaders -- enemy or ally. >> you have to say
numbers in vietnam and killing colored people over there, whereas they could not get decent treatment or education at home. he made that famous quote about spending $320,000 to kill every card thattnam soldier is what it cost us. we were spending $50 at home for anyone who was poor. a nation that has these priorities is doomed to spiritual death. >> so you had king doing with kennedy fifth year's ago in the 1963 march on washington, then moving on to deal with lbj to get the voting rights...
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today, he's traded in his chef's hat to promote, educate, and even celebrate produce with other chefs. >> i use email. i use the phone. but the best thing to do is to be able to go into a restaurant, to go into the kitchen, to find the person cooking the food, and say, "hey, what can i get you? what are you looking for?" >> i would just be doing seed production if it weren't for jim driving in here and refusing to drive away and saying, "no, i really want this stuff. no, you don't understand, i really do want to buy this stuff." and "i really want this, and i really want it now, and i really want some, and i want samples," and you know, so forth and so on despite my best efforts to get rid of him. >> as chef michael tuohy starts preparing mals with the greens, he admits his job would be so much more difficult if it were not for produce experts like jim mills. >> jim fills a need here that nobody else does, and that is he--his company and him, particularly, works with several small farms that i would want to work with directly. however, my time is really challenged most of the time, so
today, he's traded in his chef's hat to promote, educate, and even celebrate produce with other chefs. >> i use email. i use the phone. but the best thing to do is to be able to go into a restaurant, to go into the kitchen, to find the person cooking the food, and say, "hey, what can i get you? what are you looking for?" >> i would just be doing seed production if it weren't for jim driving in here and refusing to drive away and saying, "no, i really want this stuff....
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